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Simon Mak

Associate Professor of Statistical Science
Statistical Science
214 Old Chemistry, Box 90251, Durham, NC 27708-0251
214 Old Chemistry, Box 90251, Durham, NC 27708-0251

Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Professor of Statistical Science · 2026 - Present Statistical Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Faculty Network Member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences · 2020 - Present Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, University Institutes and Centers

Recent Scholarly Works


Effect of recoils on soft-drop-groomed observables in γ-tagged jets in a multistage approach

Journal article Physical Review C · March 28, 2026 We investigate medium-induced modifications to jet substructure observables that characterize hard components in central Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV. Using a multistage Monte Carlo simulation of in-medium jet shower evolution, ... Full text Cite

Hard-photon-triggered jets in p- p and A-A collisions

Journal article Physical Review C · January 1, 2026 An investigation of high-transverse-momentum (high-pT) photon-triggered jets in proton-proton (p-p) and ion-ion (A-A) collisions at √sNN = 0.2 and 5.02 TeV is carried out, using the multistage description of in-medium jet e ... Full text Cite

Additive Multi-Index Gaussian Process Modeling, with Application to Multi-Physics Surrogate Modeling of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Journal article Journal of the American Statistical Association · January 1, 2026 The Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) is a unique phase of nuclear matter, theorized to have filled the Universe shortly after the Big Bang. A critical challenge in studying the QGP is that, to reconcile experimental observables with theoretical parameters, one req ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


C-SCAPE: A Comprehensive Event Generator for Chromodynamics with a Statistically and Computationally Advanced Program Envelope

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Texas A&M University · 2025 - 2027

Meetings of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2026

Collaborative Research: Cost-Efficient and Confident Sampling for Modern Scientific Discovery

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2026

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Education


Georgia Institute of Technology · 2018 M.S.
Georgia Institute of Technology · 2018 Ph.D.
Simon Fraser University · 2013 B.S.

External Links


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